Laura Moyneur
PhD Student
Hispanic and Italian Studies
Pronouns: she/her/hers; ella
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Laura Moyneur is a PhD student in the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research examines representations of aging women in Spanish and Latin American media, popular culture, and literature from the early 20th century to the present, with a focus on the intersection of ageism and sexism within medical contexts. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she earned an MA in Hispanic Literature at the University of Minnesota and a BA in Spanish at Saint Louis University’s campus in Madrid, Spain. Following her undergraduate studies in 2020, she moved to Asunción, Paraguay where she was an English Teaching Assistant for the Fulbright US Student Program.
Laura Moyneur es estudiante de doctorado del Departamento de Estudios Hispánicos e Italianos en la Universidad de Illinois Chicago. Su investigación examina las representaciones de las mujeres envejecidas en los medios, la cultura popular y la literatura española y latinoamericana desde principios del siglo XX hasta el presente, con un enfoque en la intersección del edadismo y el sexismo dentro de los contextos médicos. Antes de su trabajo doctoral, obtuvo su maestría en literatura hispánica en la Universidad de Minnesota y completó sus estudios de pregrado en español en el campus de la Universidad de Saint Louis en Madrid, España. Después de recibir su licenciatura en 2020, aceptó una beca para ser asistente de enseñanza de inglés para el programa Fulbright en Asunción, Paraguay.
Research Interests: Visual Culture, Gender Studies, Film Studies, Graphic Medicine, Medical Humanities, Feminist Theory, Elder Care
Selected Publications
Moyneur, Laura, and Yomary Carillo Tequia. “Los objetos testimoniales y las narrativas de reparación como visibilización del pasado y presente en Estamos todas bien.” Hispania 108.3 (2025): 413–427.
Service to Community
Spanish Translator, University of Minnesota Mobile Health Initiative, 2024-2025
Notable Honors
Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, 2021, Fulbright
2025, Conference Travel Award, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Spring 2024 & Spring 2025, Conference Travel Award, Spanish & Portuguese Department, University of Minnesota
2020, Premio a la Excelencia Académica en español, Saint Louis University Madrid
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, First Place Manresa Writing Award, Saint Louis University Madrid
Education
University of Minnesota, M.A.
Saint Louis University Madrid, B.A.
Selected Presentations
- “What happens to the first lawyer in Comisario Jaguar?” Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, USA. May 2025.
- “Joy as Resistance: Laughter, Memory, and Feminist Play in the 2024 Brazilian Documentary As Primeiras” University of Minnesota Portuguese Program Research Showcase. Minneapolis, MN. 5 May 2025.
- “Color y memoria en la novela gráfica Estamos todas bien de Ana Penyas.” Memory Studies Association. Lima, Peru. July 2024.
- “Constricted identity: Exploring Sexual Dynamics and Societal Constraints in Clarice Lispector’s ‘Pig Latin.’” University of Minnesota Portuguese Program Research Showcase. Minneapolis, MN. 29 April 2024.